Fundamental Concepts - The Tao of Poo [Weirddave]

Every day, many of us look around and frankly wonder what's going on in this country of ours. It's obvious that President Obama has been a disaster for the country, but there is endless speculation as to the nature of the disaster, whether it's incidental or intentional. Is this all some malevolent plan, or simply the wages of unprecedented incompetence? Obama did promise to "fundamentally change" the US after all, but is this what he meant? You hear everything from grand, sweeping conspiracy theories ("If he was setting out to destroy the country, what would he do differently?") to despairing wails ("How could he not realize that *something bad* would happen if he did *something*"). My belief is that everyone is over thinking the issue. I'm a big believer in Occam's razor, and if you put two simple pieces of information together you get a very simple explanation for 7 years of insanity.

First of all, let's take Obama. What is he? By temperament and training, he is a community organizer. The thing is, that's one of those terms that sounds self explanatory but really it's not, in fact it means the opposite of what it seems to mean. The term "community organizer" was coined by Saul Alinsky to describe the people who he envisioned would destabilize society. The last thing an Alinskyite wants is for a community to be organized. An organized community is functioning smoothly, all of its parts meshing seamlessly. An organized community has no need for, nor desire for, an Alinskyite. No, the job of one of Alinsky's community organizers is to destabilize a community, to disorganize it. It is only when a community becomes disorganized that the politics of division can thrive and it is divided communities that are the end goal of Alinsky's disciples. Only when a community has been fatally divided against itself is it ripe for tearing down, to be replaced by a communal Utopia. Sowing this division is all Obama has done all his entire adult life. It is quite literally all he knows.

That's bad enough, but completing the toxic brew that we've been forced to quaff these past seven years is the fact that Obama as President is the de-facto head of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat party is absolutely dependent on the factionalization of society for its success. The Democrat Party is the party of identity politics, the party of conflict, the party of "us" against "them", and they survive by making people believe that they are the only chance "us" has to keep from being overwhelmed by whatever "them" is the boogyman of the week. The Democrat Party is the living embodiment of the most perfect quote regarding politics that I've ever heard. H.L. Mencken, the illustrious "Sage of Baltimore", once observed "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary". Now, that's not to say that the Republicans don't do the same thing, they do, but theoretically at least the Republican Party has some principles behind it. Yes, you can stop laughing now, I said theoretically. The Democrat Party, however, has no principles beyond an unbridled lust for power, and the way they achieve that power is by pitting groups against each other.

So now let's put those two together, shall we? Obama's training and temperament lead him to play factions off against each other. His party is absolutely dependent on that happening. I contend that the simplest explanation for all of the decisions made by Obama during his time as president. In every instance he's asked himself "What can I do that will further drive people apart?". I doubt that he's even doing it consciously. That doesn't mean that isn't doing it. I can't think of a single major incident in his presidency where this pattern hasn't held true, and on top of that, there are dozens of minor incidents that Obama has weighed in on, always divisively, that should be far below the level of presidential attention (Remember Professor Gates? That's a situation worthy of presidential intervention? In what universe?).

The office of president is bestowed upon a person who is elected to lead ALL Americans for a single term, more if he can convince them to re-elect him. ALL Americans. However vicious an election may be, once elected, a president is supposed to represent everybody. Of course, presidents are human and this isn't fantasy land, so this remains an ideal, but it is an important ideal in a UNITED country, like the UNITED States. All 43 presidents before Barack Obama generally tried to observe this convention, or at least pay lip service to it; but with Obama, as we've seen, it's so far from his being that you might as well expect a plant to walk. I don't believe the man is capable of it, if you suggested that he act as his predecessors acted he'd look at you askance for even suggesting such a thing. It's literally beyond his ken.

I don't have to tell you how dangerous this is, we're living it, a real life version of the old "It's my nature" scorpion and frog joke, which is terrifying. The person responsible for oiling the gears of society is instead throwing sand into them, and has been for years. The only reason the social machine that is America hasn't ground to a halt yet is because of how robustly it was over engineered, but the bearings are smoking, the valves are knocking and the whole thing is groaning like an alligator in heat. It'll be a frickin' miracle if we live through it.

I honestly believe that that's it. There are other layers involved, of course. In this column I'm dealing with the micro, not the macro. For example, critical theory and the Frankfort school are still a thing and are culpable in most of this too, but that's big picture stuff. I'm focusing on one man, Obama, and discussing small picture stuff. The murder of Kate Steinle didn't lend itself to immediate division (very few people are going to willingly envision themselves on the same side as a 5 times deported psychotic criminal) so Obama limited himself to a weak call for gun control. On the other hand, after Dylann Roof did his despicable deed the people of Charleston did a remarkable thing (that shouldn't be remarkable at all). They came together as Americans, white and black, male and female, conservative and liberal, and absolutely rejected the politics of division. Al Sharpton headed south, as did DeRay, and the blood soaked gears or racial grievance machine started to grind....until it was SHUT DOWN! Shut down by the people of Charleston who remember who they were (Americans) and what that means. Shut down bay a community that was actually organized. Shut down by good people. The race baiters were sent scurrying with their tails between their legs. That's what the whole Confederate Battle Flag (Grrr! Naval Jack! The battle flag is SQUARE - pedantic historian Weirddave) flap has been about. The grievance machine rolled into Charleston expecting to foment another Baltimore or Ferguson riot, and it was rejected soundly. Americans acted like Americans, and that was a huge threat to the dividers. Almost everyone can see that the CBF outrage is beyond stupid, but we are being MADE to care about it because otherwise we might just remember that we all have much more in common than we do differences, and in that remembrance is the end of the Democrat Party and an utter rejection of everything Barack Obama really is. We can't have that, can we?

As to the title of this piece, well, anyone who would deliberately set out to destroy cohesiveness and sow division would pretty much be a real shit, wouldn't he?

E.T.A. Twitter user Evi L Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) made a graphic for this post.

Comments

1It's obvious that President Obama has been a disaster for the country

A far more serious problem is that it is not at all obvious to many, many people. Back to reading.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2015 10:36 AM (sdi6R)

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The electorate that voted for Obama *twice* is the disaster for the country.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 11, 2015 10:38 AM (JO9+V)

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Not to disagree with you about SC but what I found most impressive was Christians actually behaving as Christians. Forgive and love and don't let the Evil One sow discord.
Satan is the father of lies and discord, wherever you see those two things you see evil at work.

Skip Gates, the lavishly compensated and lifetime-tenured black Harvard professor, decided after his altercation with the Cambridge cops that The Man Iz Keepin' A Brutha Down.

So he called three friends to complain about marginalization and powerlessness and lack of respect for blacks. Who were those three friends? The black mayor of Cambridge, MA. The black governor of Massachusetts. And the black President of the United States.

The total number of publicly visible Republican figures who called this out for its grandiose ridiculousness: zero.

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The Democrat Party is the new and improved NSDAP without the uniforms, armbands, martial music, beer halls, bratwurst and sauerkraut, protective custody warrants and of course the death camps. But give them time as the LIV will love all of the above until they have to get on the trains. Thank you Obama voters!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy@gmail.com at July 11, 2015 10:44 AM (JG47A)

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It boggles the mind that a Malignant Narcissist filled with hate for the people he represents could be elected twice. What is the end game of the "elite" class. Is it royalty and serfs?

Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2015 10:45 AM (FBjP7)

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Obama's destruction of the country is definitely deliberate. At this stage his motive is one only for speculation. The shame of it all is that
America (or at least the media representation of it) is eating itself up from the inside. It may be impossible to turn things around at this late date.

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Back in November of 2007, at Thanksgiving dinner, my lefty sibs were celebrating Obama's election at dinner when it came to be my turn to speak. I think they thought I'd say something conciliatory, now the election was over and we were all going to unite behind new leadership.

Instead I said, "I think we will have world war and economic devastation from this election. We're older, but I truly hope our children all survive this decision. You folks voted for this and I cannot believe it."

Didn't go over well at the time, but in retrospect, who looks more correct so far?

Posted by: MTF at July 11, 2015 10:48 AM (DkJ4E)

14 What is the end game of the "elite" class. Is it royalty and serfs?

https://youtu.be/UMRo5XCKddQ

Posted by: Weirddave at July 11, 2015 10:49 AM (WvS3w)

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You didn't mention that chaos hides corruption, and give a pretext for seizing control.A major part of what is going on is to hide or dehighlight major corruptions and stealings by people in power.

Posted by: Kindltot - one of the nekulturni at July 11, 2015 10:49 AM (3pRHP)

Posted by: Gmac- 'all politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at July 11, 2015 10:49 AM (4CRfK)

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At times it seems like he must be a paid-for foreign agent, either some leftover-while-in-diapers fragment of the Soviet era gone rogue or under the thumb of an Iranian paymaster.

More likely I think he's just President Chauncey Gardener, who believes that he's earned the path through life that's been first paved by upper-middle-class-white-parent-money and subsequently by his skin tone and the education that money paid for, and unwittingly under the control of individuals far more clever than himself.

Posted by: JEM at July 11, 2015 10:51 AM (o+SC1)

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By the way, does anyone here use Reddit? I go there on occasion and Ellen Pao just got fired (finally!). Her tenure is in many ways the story of Obama.

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"On the other hand, after Dylann Roof did his despicable deed the people
of Charleston did a remarkable thing (that shouldn't be remarkable at
all). They came together as Americans, white and black, male and female,
conservative and liberal, and absolutely rejected the politics of
division."

Oh yes. Absolutely. Division is very very bad.

We must have, instead of Division, Unity.

Unity under the aegis of the all-encompassing nanny state.

Which will Protect all of us Unified together.

Protecting our Unity from insidious cultural influences. Such as flags of countries which ceased to exist over a century and a half ago.

I'm sure we can all uniformly agree in our Unity that in the name of spurning Division, all evil thoughts, or indeed anything which might spark evil thoughts, or which may at some point in the long distant past have been associated with evil thoughts, must be sternly suppressed.

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So I wonder if Hillary will carry on where O leaves off? I doubt it. Hillary is only concerned about Hillary.

Posted by: Wind Breaker at July 11, 2015 10:54 AM (uz/Pv)

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Not to derail the thread, but on a macro level I definitely believe there was a conspiracy to put him in power. He has literally been groomed for it all his life. Doors have been opened for him, and he glided effortlessly to the next level.

Combine this with the activities of the Frankfurt School in academia and the entertainment industry, which fertilized the soil, and I don't know what else to call it other than the International Communist Conspiracy.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2015 10:55 AM (sdi6R)

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Just finished reading 'Flashback' by Dan Simmons and it was published in 2011, set in around 2025 or so, and everything he wrote about has come to pass. Now that's only 4 years, but all the predicted outcomes he writes about in the book seem well on their way to fruition.
Plus it really makes leftists heads explode. I'm wondering if this book will put his movie deals into jeopardy.

I can see both sides of the argument. Reasonable people of goodwill can disagree on this.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at July 11, 2015 10:58 AM (QdAXQ)

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24 Rickl, you're right, but there is only so much I can fit into one AoS length post. People already tell me my Fundamental Concepts posts are too long, if I had included all that in any detail (I did mention it) this post would have been Ace movie review length.

Illogic,
Thoughts dominated by slogan (war on women, trigger effect, etc.,
Indolence on the part of the public,
Absence of any knowledge of economics,
Absence of any knowledge of history and the present tendency toward its destruction (rebel flag, seeing the past in terms of the class struggle, etc.)

There are others of course but I have a feeling that if we can give this age a name which incorporates its distinction we may be headed in the right direction in the sense that a problem must be defined prior to its solution.

A hearty thanks to the many suggestions.

Posted by: Libra at July 11, 2015 11:00 AM (GblmV)

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"What is the end game of the "elite" class. Is it royalty and serfs? "

I am astounded that people cannot be proud of the Confederate Battle Flag and the heroics of the Confederate army and still acknowledge that the southern political and donor class of 1859-60 pushed through secession because they were not going to let those "abolitionist republicans (think modern tea party equivalent) who pushed out the Whigs who understood politics" tell us we cant continue having slavery.

I read many of the secession statements and SC and MS come right out and say so -- TX states other good reasons and then there was a lot of "Republicans aren't a valid party " weasel wording from other confederate states.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 11, 2015 11:01 AM (iA/+T)

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"More likely I think he's just President Chauncey Gardener, who believes
that he's earned the path through life that's been first paved by
upper-middle-class-white-parent-money and subsequently by his skin tone
and the education that money paid for, and unwittingly under the control
of individuals far more clever than himself."

I keep hearkening back to the interview with civil rights icon Percy Sutton on an obscure NYC public access channel, back before Obama's presidential run.

Sutton said, almost as an aside, that he had been called up years before, by an individual who he identified only as "one of the wealthiest men in the world". That rich benefactor was aware that Sutton had an inside line with the Harvard community, and wished for Sutton to pull strings there to get someone, someone who was at that time totally unknown to Sutton, into Harvard Law School.

I assume I don't have to explain the identity of the Harvard applicant who required a leg up in the process.

The way has been smoothed for Obama for longer than most of us realize. At some point, much larger external forces than merely "upper-middle-class parent money" began to alter his trajectory. With a clear intent in mind.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2015 11:02 AM (noWW6)

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Combine this with the activities of the Frankfurt School in academia and the entertainment industry, which fertilized the soil, and I don't know what else to call it other than the International Communist Conspiracy.
Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2015 10:55 AM (sdi6R)

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Just wait until that Dalton Trumbo movie staring Bryan Cranston comes out next fall. Grrr.

I've been watching these youtube clips of the Hwd 10 and boy talk about whiners! They hid behind our constitution while trying to destroy it. They complain about lost of income when they blocked all screenplays that were anti communist. They shit all over the Poles in every script b/c they were ordered to do so by the Comintern. They brought out their poor wives and kids who in real life they treated like shit.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 11, 2015 11:03 AM (iQIUe)

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The micro merges with the macro -- in every small thing he's done are the elements of the greater plan for dissolution and control. "The issue is never the issue," Alinsky famously said. That is, every small thing the social atomizers do is done with the greater issue in mind. You're right -- EVERYTHING he's done has been wrong for America, for the notion of e pluribus unum. The conspiracy theory needs no more proof.

Posted by: rrpjr at July 11, 2015 11:03 AM (s/yC1)

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Sorry to drop my CBF rant and run but I have to go haul hay and that has been bugging me for most of the week.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 11, 2015 11:04 AM (iA/+T)

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Torque, there is a difference between regimented unity forced on by the power to exclude, sanction and punish, and there is unity which is a community of individuals who have common goals who work together to try to accommodate them.

this conflation of terms causes problems: so I suggest this test.

is this unity created by allowing the children to work things out on their own to satisfy their own needs and wants, or is this unity imposed from without, turning the society into an open prison operated by the prisoners to achieve ends not of the prisoners' choosing?

Posted by: Kindltot - one of the nekulturni at July 11, 2015 11:05 AM (3pRHP)

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Just wait until that Dalton Trumbo movie staring Bryan Cranston comes out next fall. Grrr.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 11, 2015 11:03 AM (iQIUe)

And then we have the new movie in the pipeline about Anita Hill to look forward to. It never stops -- a factory assembly line of lies.

Posted by: rrpjr at July 11, 2015 11:06 AM (s/yC1)

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As I was telling my MIL the other day, all the deliberately hidden information on Zeros background will eventually come out. Maybe years from now, maybe decades from now. I think he was born in America, with in-question fatherhood, but lied multiple times throughout his life about being born in Kenya if it served his purpose(scholarship, book deals, break the ice at parties). Plus all the nonsense with travel to Pakistan and social security numbers and whatnot.
The question is whether there will be any repercussions. Or shame.

44Oh, and these screenwriters were nasty and bullies to everyone. And for all there BS about helping the poor, they did not. Hwd commies only gave money to commie fronts plus their dues added up to the tune of 10 mil which was a lot of money back then.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 11, 2015 11:07 AM (iQIUe)

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Damn that's a great write up but ugh, didn't need to start Saturday with it.

Americans....you better wake the fuck up.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:09 AM (XAFOu)

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The mistake with this sort of analysis is that you can't do someone like Obama in a vacuum. In many ways he has never been anything more than a figurehead.

Never.

He can occasionally come up with what appear to be his own words, his own spin on what is happening, but when he does those are the times when even lefties are scratching their heads, wondering what he's talking about.

His role, the one he has had for most of his adult life, is to be the face of a movement. Others behind the scenes do the work, he basks in the "glory."

It served the dual purpose of allowing the real workers to work, shielding them from sight, AND allowing the identity figurehead to be a weapon that can be used either offensively or defensively, as the situation needs.

In other words, he's an illusion. He IS the squirrel, and people spend a lot of time and energy concentrating on him, rather than focusing on what's really going on in the background, unseen, and unmolested.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 11:10 AM (Dj0WE)

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I was appalled and disgusted when the locals put a statue of Dalton Trumbo downtown, in a bathtub no less. He was supposedly from here years ago. I just don't get it.

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And as V the K mentioned, don't discount the real power behind the scenes. Jarrett. An 'advisor' with her own secret service detail who I guarantee 97 percent of the populace never even heard of.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:13 AM (XAFOu)

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Shouldn't he/the admin have done at least one thing right in the past 7 years if it isn't on purpose? (Even if he/it have been aided in this by your nation having no Opposition party.)

Posted by: andycanuck at July 11, 2015 11:14 AM (kivUY)

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So, what does it say about the entertainment industry and the press that they are not only on board with the agenda, but push for it?
Not only lie to cover for the failures of the agenda, but lie to demonize it's critics?

Without other enabling structures in place, it wouldn't be time for Obama.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (XmOA9)

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I think a key contributing factor is that for all intents and purposes, Obama is not American. I'm not talking about his birthplace, but his life experience and sensibilities. When we were in grade school learning about the presidents, in boy/girl scouts, little league, getting together for big Thanksgiving and July 4th celebrations --- Obama was in Indonesia. He simply does not have the basic upbringing steeped in, surrounded by American history, values, and culture. Added to that his closest relatives were Communists and America-haters, so no chance Stanley Ann was providing any counter to what Barack was learning in his school and from Indonesian friends.

He just doesn't get it, and further, he doesn't want to

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (NOIQH)

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But also check out the old Twilight Zone episode The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

One of the big things that got TFG elected twice was his image of nothingness: he was the blank canvas upon which his idiot supporters painted their picture of, um, something, I don't know what. Add in the MFM's failure to even check if he gave his fellow classmate a haircut in school and you have the perfect Storm of Stoopid.

And yeah, his "occupation" was a giant red flag for a lot of folks (SWIDT?). Again, his history was never even analyzed, let alone questioned. His roots were deeply anti-American, from his radical whore of a mother to his leftarded grandparents who groomed him until the Professional Socialists were able to begin his packaging for orifice for public consumption. He then launched his preezy bid in the living room of an avowed terrorist, with the anti-Christ George Soros looking on, nodding his horns in approval of his son, in whom he was well pleased.

So here we are, seven years into what has been a disaster for a once-great country that has seemingly been quite content to allow to be led around like cattle, lying and obfuscating, twisting both the truth and language to deceive the public into doing something that, were it adequately informed, it would never, ever do: elect a domestic enemy bent on the total destruction of its history, principles, law and way of life. That there are so few in power who are willing to even slow down the destruction, we may never recover from this bleak period of history.

Given that TFG had the opportunity to finally lay the accusations of racism in America to rest, he hasn't done it and has in fact used false charges of racism to further divide a country that was already peacefully diverse. This is but one example of the many opportunities that TFG had to follow through on his campaign promise to fix a lot of the broken things in politics. He has instead doubled down on his division because he knows that a house divided cannot stand.

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"I simply cannot discount the very real possibility of a shooting civil here running concurrent with a world war that dwarfs WW's I & II within our lifetimes."

I used to believe something like this was a possibility. I now think it's likely.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (YFw5T)

57Obama is a creature of the most corrupt city of the most corrupt county of the most corrupt state in the union.

Well, as corrupt as any of them, at least. What he's done is bring big city Democrat corruption (BIRM several times) to the national level. We all live in a big city now.

Posted by: t-bird at July 11, 2015 11:16 AM (FcR7P)

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>>And then we have the new movie in the pipeline about Anita Hill to look forward to. It never stops -- a factory assembly line of lies.

Don't forget the Barack and Michelle love story movie (puke!). That should be fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2015 11:16 AM (NOIQH)

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I get very little time to get into comment mode any more, but I do want to say that I enjoy your fundamental concepts wierddave. I always read them and turn them over in my head, (in fact, if people could see me working on the farm they would think I'm crazy because I'll talk to myself about things like this).

I have an almost 4 year old and a one year old and I struggle with how we're going to teach them about America. So far I'm thinking something like "this was America and then this is obamerica."

But after nearly 7 years of near dictatorship at times and a nearly daily shredding of the Constitution, combined with the actions of the media, professorial elitists and other assorted Social Justice Whores, it HAS to be intentional.

These pathetic motherfuckers got the door opened for them by Obama and his ilk, and they ran through it at full speed.

At this point I'm ok with division. I refuse to be united in any situation with what I call the Pathetic Left, even in the event of another terrorist attack.

Our greatest enemies are not foreign, but domestic. Not Al-Qaeda or ISIS, but people like Obama, Jarret, Biden, and the Hildebeast AND their supporters. They must be fought.

And if a whole lot of them end up dead from a suitcase bomb or something, you won't see me crying about it at all.

United my ass. Death to the whole bunch.

Posted by: Blano at July 11, 2015 11:17 AM (rkBpl)

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Barry is from Chicago. The Kennedy's are Chicago they signed off on Barry. Papa Kennedy bought publishing houses, the Catholic Church, as much of Hollywood as possible, the media - his goal was to make sure his family would always be wealthy and in power. O'care was really single payer dream of the K's. They have always be communist. Barry is an allusion. Everything about the Kennedy's was an allusion. How long has the country been asleep?

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"And as V the K mentioned, don't discount the real power behind the
scenes. Jarrett. An 'advisor' with her own secret service detail"

Expect Jarrett to keep that detail even after she leaves the White House.

Obama has decided he has the power to extend protective details to former members of his administration even when they're no longer in federal government service.

I learned that when a news article referred to Rahm Emmanuel's Secret Service detail last year, and I said, wait, what? The MAYOR OF CHICAGO, with a huge police force under his command and control, has a federal protective detail at public expense IN ADDITION to his city police guards at public expense?

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Shouldn't he/the admin have done at least one thing right in the past 7 years if it isn't on purpose? (Even if he/it have been aided in this by your nation having no Opposition party.)

Posted by: andycanuck at July 11, 2015 11:14 AM (kivUY)

You make one of the best early observations on this President. That you can't flip quarters and get heads 20x in a row. It isn't random.

The same could be said for the stunning success of western society at large, despite its fits and stumbles. Saying it's dominance (until recently) is random or luck is suggesting 2000 years of flipping a coin and getting heads.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2015 11:20 AM (XmOA9)

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Kindltot: Torque, there is a difference between regimented unity forced on by the power to exclude, sanction and punish, and there is unity which is a community of individuals who have common goals who work together to try to accommodate them. This conflation of terms causes problems...

Thanks for tackling that one. I was trying to.

I think the distinction you're elucidating here is between unity (as in e pluribus unum) and uniformity. They are absolute opposites.

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Currently watching short-fingered vulgarian* Donald Trump's presser concerning illegal immigration. He's like a wizard who dares to Say That Which Cannot Be Uttered. Now here is a man who is a uniter. He's talking about issues, not race/class/gender. I never figured a blow-dried blowhard like Trump would be the man to push ideas rather than pablum. He may be a showboater and a gadfly but he's forcing the other candidates to discuss verboten topics.

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but there is endless speculation as to the nature of the disaster, whether it's incidental or intentional.

It's intentional all the way. Barry is an anti-American, anti-white, anti-Christian commie douchebag. He hates the country all that it was founded on and the people who made it great. He's going to get even with everyone is this country who oppose him and his leftist agenda

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2015 11:21 AM (DiZBp)

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I've probably been focusing too much on ammunition and not enough on food.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 11, 2015 11:22 AM (YFw5T)

7056 "I simply cannot discount the very real possibility of a shooting civil here running concurrent with a world war that dwarfs WW's I & II within our lifetimes."

I used to believe something like this was a possibility. I now think it's likely.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (YFw5T)

I thought it was a dead certainty the moment he was elected.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2015 11:22 AM (sdi6R)

71The way has been smoothed for Obama for longer than most of us realize. At some point, much larger external forces than merely "upper-middle-class parent money" began to alter his trajectory. With a clear intent in mind.

Recall TFG's mailman who said that a teenaged Barky introduced himself to by saying that "I'm going to be president someday."

Last summer NYT unintentionally pulled the curtain back on a report about how Obama was handling the Ferguson mess from Martha's Vinyard. The mentioned that Val was on the phone w/the Ferguson Mayor and MO governor daily. Think about that when you recall how they stood down to rioters and made other mind-boggling decisions that escalated the riots. It was done on Valerie's advice (or insistence?).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2015 11:22 AM (NOIQH)

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For the simple reason that you can't have half of the population trying to ram Communism down the other half's throats without bloodshed.

How boned are we? By the early 2030s, Millennials will comprise over 2/3rds of the workforce. And, from my limited sampling on FB and conversations, Millennials are positively thrilled with Bernie Sanders and his message. Couple all this with their general disdain for Christianity and it is not too hard to envision burning times in our future.

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So, what does it say about the entertainment industry and the press that they are not only on board with the agenda, but push for it?
Not only lie to cover for the failures of the agenda, but lie to demonize it's critics?

Without other enabling structures in place, it wouldn't be time for Obama.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (XmOA9)

This is true. Once upon a time, the term "silent majority" was coined, to refer to the average American who was NOT on board with the lefties who have a vice grip control on culture, but all-too-often go along without saying anything.

It's probably less true today than it was when the term was coined, but I think it is to a large extent, still true. People have been trained to tolerate a warped view of this country imposed by a culture that is a wing of the leftist power structure.

The main difference now is of course, they have been in control of the education system for enough time that they are churning out their indoctrinated minions.

If it's a numbers game, their numbers are growing. Ours are shrinking. If/when they believe the time is right, they will start killing us. And that time may be real soon.

I'm not even remotely kidding.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 11:24 AM (Dj0WE)

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You failed to realize he accomplished the exact same thing that many Blacks within this country participate. He actually got a title without any credentials and without any scrutiny...Only this time it has a title with weight...

Posted by: Plastic Sturgeon at July 11, 2015 11:24 AM (/WmRg)

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Obama is the pointy end of the spear. This has been going on for decades and decades. Let me give an example most of us would probably agree a cafe has to serve everyone, they can't refuse service to say Latinos. But it really isn't a private business now but a business that serves at the pleasure of the government. For good or ill that is the result. The edges of society will always be rough and 'unjust' and without restraint all can be fundamentally changed. What used to work now doesn't. Remember there is no limits on governments doing 'good' and they do it with force.

Posted by: just saying at July 11, 2015 11:26 AM (wkuqO)

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We have allied against us a coalition of those who are afraid of individual liberties. There are those who are frightened of their own liberty because life is too big and daunting. And there are those who are frightened that others will have liberty, thus undercutting their control.

These two groups are the useful idiots and the prog/Marxist elites.

The elites invoke the bogeyman-du-jour in order to manipulate the LIV's fear of individual liberty, thus allowing them to exert control over those that they themselves fear.

Against this illusory strength that is based in fear we have but the courage of our own convictions.

Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at July 11, 2015 11:26 AM (NeFrd)

79I've probably been focusing too much on ammunition and not enough on food. That's what your neighbors are for.

Posted by: the donner party at July 11, 2015 11:26 AM (kivUY)

80
>>Recall TFG's mailman who said that a teenaged Barky introduced himself to by saying that "I'm going to be president someday."

America is currently being run by 2nd and 3rd generation Communists - Obama, Jarrett, Ayers, Geithner - their familiies go back generations.
For example, IIRC, Val's FIL was tight w/Frank Marshall Davis, and Stanley Ann worked for Geithner's dad.

All the way back in the 1990s, they were doing yeoman service in pointing out that America's political class has come to consist of clumsy airheads and cynical mercenaries.

The sting that they pulled where they were contacting members of Congress and asking for a position statement on "independence for Freedonia" was brilliant.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2015 11:27 AM (noWW6)

82
looks like the ones who complained about shaming.....are now shaming everyone...... they are also the same people who complain about bullying....yet use that very tactic to get what they want.....and for the record....i don't think you can be shamed unless you actually believe that what you are doing is wrong....if you are confident in yourself and confident that what you are doing is right.....how can you be shamed? shame is a good tool to correct actual bad behavior.....as for bullying....that is wrong....unfortunately, i think they confuse the word....they are being shamed....and just don't like being reminded that they are in fact doing something bad.....so they substitute the shame word with bully.....so they don't have to deal with the shame.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at July 11, 2015 11:27 AM (0O7c5)

83
The main difference now is of course, they have
been in control of the education system for enough time that they are
churning out their indoctrinated minions.

If it's a numbers game, their numbers are growing. Ours are
shrinking. If/when they believe the time is right, they will start
killing us. And that time may be real soon.

I'm not even remotely kidding.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 11:24 AM (Dj0WE)

I had lefty teachers starting in high school but I could see their bullshit coming from miles away. This generation is utterly oblivious to it. If you tell them any opposing view point they stare at you blankly. It does not compute because they are so thoroughly brainwashed.

85
One of the known agendas for the Gate's billionaire foundation is a reduction of the population by 10%. They say they want to achieve that goal through birth control abortion. ? Who can walk in and out of the WH anytime they want?

Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2015 11:28 AM (FBjP7)

86
Osama needed killing but in doing so, looks like Obama created a vacumn which he has done nothing to stop. Boka Harum or whatever they call themselves have sworn allegiance to ISIS. Every day they are pulling off suicide bombings. Iraq is over run, the Kurds/Yehazis are being massacred but holding out, Syria is lost, they have encroached into parts of Lebanon. Hell, you can see them from Israel. The Egyptian Army lost 70 men in Sinai last week. And what is Obama doing??

I can see ISIS trying shit with Israel and all shit breaking lose. These people attracted to ISIS are sick.

And as they always do, BBC will be making a mini series sympathetic to ISIS, I shit you not...

And in their minds they will be doing the right thing by getting rid of H8ters!!! to make a better society.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:30 AM (XAFOu)

89
One of the known agendas for the Gate's billionaire
foundation is a reduction of the population by 10%. They say they want
to achieve that goal through birth control abortion. ? Who can walk in
and out of the WH anytime they want?

Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2015 11:28 AM (FBjP7)

If Gates and his ilk want to reduce the population they should dig a hole and then shoot themselves into it. Problem solved

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2015 11:31 AM (DiZBp)

90
*shoutout to the late great Spy Magazine.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at July 11, 2015 11:20 AM (jR7Wy)

Amen... I have a desire to somebody go back and figure out who was responsible for creating/sustaining that publication for the all-too-brief period of absolute brilliance.

What are they doing today? Was there a small group who was behind it? A larger group who just happened to accidentally come together?

I really don't know. I assume somebody does, but I never hear anybody talking about its history, or anyone today taking credit for it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 11:32 AM (Dj0WE)

91
"Torque, there is a difference between regimented unity forced on by
the power to exclude, sanction and punish, and there is unity which is a
community of individuals who have common goals who work together to try
to accommodate them."

What happens when the "common goals" of the "community of individuals" who "work together" ARE TO "exclude, sanction and punish"?

94America is currently being run by 2nd and 3rd generation Communists - Obama, Jarrett, Ayers, Geithner - their familiies go back generations.
For example, IIRC, Val's FIL was tight w/Frank Marshall Davis, and Stanley Ann worked for Geithner's dad.

We've been had and it's the fault of an awful lot of people. I don't know which is worse, people who hate us enough to lie to us to our faces, or a populace who doesn't even question what it's been told.

1. He was assaulted as a child by Frank Marshall Davis, in between Marxism classes, and his grandfather knew.
2. He transferred to Columbia despite B's and C's at Occidental, and SAT's in the 1200 range
3. His grades at Columbia were even worse, though that might have been because he missed so many classes.
4. His Pakistani trip was for the purpose of extensive Madrassa classes.
5. Saudi donations paid for his travel and also his Harvard Law tuition. His grades were too poor for a decent clerkship.
6. He was fired from his first job, because lazy.
7. He was a true ACORN believer, and an enthusiastic socialist party member.
8. Ayers wrote all of his books.
9. The Khalidi tape will show him wishing the end of Israel and the conquering by Islam of the country.
10. He actively helped Russia and China spying while President.
11. Progressives used government files to blackmail Congressional leaders and SCOTUS.
12. Americans are being blackmailed, intimidated by threatened Justice Department and EPA investigations and the Press is actively helping.

Huh? The Kennedys are as corrupt as the Chicago pols, they have ties with the Daleys, but they're as East Coast as you can get. They arose out of the old Boston ward heeler tradition. Unlike other immigrants, the Irish had the advantage of knowing English and collectively they discovered they had a certain knack for politics (they also came to dominate the power structure of the American Catholic church for the same reason.) That did not necessarily work out in the best interests of this country, since they played a major role in building the political machines in Boston and Chicago.

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Why Obama acts the way he does is interesting and may help to predict his next actions but it is the result of his stay in power that we can see.

This batch of tyrants aren't very tolerant of other ideas that don't agree with them. Already there are calls for imprisonment for AWG deniers. The subconscious racism described by the US supreme court, the white privilege created out of whole cloth. They will be jailing (if they go quietly) the high nails in the not too distant future and society will nod in agreement.

Posted by: just saying at July 11, 2015 11:37 AM (wkuqO)

102
BTW, Dave, while I must take advantage of beautiful summer weather while I can and so don't want to sit around contemplating JEF and all his horrific acts, I read your comment about wanting to take care of kids at the end of last night's ONT. Bravo. It was beautiful and moving. We need more men like you.

10353 I think a key contributing factor is that for all intents and purposes, Obama is not American. I'm not talking about his birthplace, but his life experience and sensibilities. When we were in grade school learning about the presidents, in boy/girl scouts, little league, getting together for big Thanksgiving and July 4th celebrations --- Obama was in Indonesia. He simply does not have the basic upbringing steeped in, surrounded by American history, values, and culture. Added to that his closest relatives were Communists and America-haters, so no chance Stanley Ann was providing any counter to what Barack was learning in his school and from Indonesian friends.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (NOIQH)

Yep. Hence the "57 states" gaffe. OK, he was tired, he was distracted, he just hit his head, he's not too bright, etc.

No American would ever make that mistake without instantly correcting himself. I don't care if he was falling down drunk, on LSD, had been up for a month, his hair was on fire, and he'd been beaned with an Aroldis Chapman fastball. It's inconceivable.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 11, 2015 11:39 AM (oKE6c)

104
@98 That's what I meant. Kennedy married into the Fitzgerald family - Chicago. Sorry phone call.

Barry comes from a long line of commies. Funny how he referred to his pinko granny as a typical white person

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2015 11:42 AM (DiZBp)

108
Hede Massing was a soviet spy for decades. She came out of the cold in the late 40s when she realized her commie handlers were eliminating anyone stationed in the west one by one... She was married for a time to Gerhardt Eisler a big commie and brother of Hanns Eisler, a Hwd composer who fled when HUAC called him. She married Massing ? He was also a soviet spy, became disillusioned but still was more or less a communist and one of the founders of the Frankfurt School.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 11, 2015 11:42 AM (iQIUe)

109
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The electorate that voted for Obama *twice* is the disaster for the country.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 11, 2015 10:38 AM (JO9+V)

Bread and circus's always wins. Rome was built on it. LBJ's lasting legacy is the building of a permanently dependent class of citizens.

But when it's the "gun free zone" portion of the population vs the "he has an arsenal" portion it's more like "dyin ain't much of a livin"

Posted by: traye at July 11, 2015 11:45 AM (prF0A)

115
Then there will be no one left to pay taxes to fund their welfare programs or protect them from the ISIS hordes and mommy and daddy's basement will be a lot less safe then it used to be.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2015 11:37 AM (DiZBp)

Well sure. It's not going to work. It never works. But a couple hundred million dead people later is a bit late for us to be saying "see, I told you so!"

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 11:45 AM (Dj0WE)

116
Then there will be no one left to pay taxes to fund their welfare programs or protect them from the ISIS hordes and mommy and daddy's basement will be a lot less safe then it used to be.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 11, 2015 11:37 AM (DiZBp)

Silver lining

But still shitty that it has come to this.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:45 AM (XAFOu)

117He was also a soviet spy, became disillusioned but still was more or less a communist and one of the founders of the Frankfurt School.

Everyone involved in the Frankfurt School should've been deported and the building burnt to the ground the day after it opened.

The rotten fruit of that institution has been harvested by our leftarded enemies in TFG.

Make that 1000 foot home run.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the trans-Wookie Original at July 11, 2015 11:42 AM (LXGhS)

You can't hit an 800 foot home run, much less a 1000 foot one. The amount of bat speed it would take would rip the arms off the hitter, and frankly the ball cannot sustain that amount of speed. It is not aerodynamically designed to retain its structural integrity beyond a certain point, and that point would be much less than it would take to travel 800-1000 feet.

Now please write a similar piece explaining McConnell, Boehner, et al. Are they patriots? Do they hold the Consitution dear? Where is their vision of America different from Obama's? Are they just in it for the power and money? And explain why George Will and Brit Hume seem satisfied with what they are doing.

I'm only asking because this piece is so good.

Posted by: saltlick at July 11, 2015 11:49 AM (is1QN)

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103 53 I think a key contributing factor is that for all intents and purposes, Obama is not American. I'm not talking about his birthplace, but his life experience and sensibilities. When we were in grade school learning about the presidents, in boy/girl scouts, little league, getting together for big Thanksgiving and July 4th celebrations --- Obama was in Indonesia. He simply does not have the basic upbringing steeped in, surrounded by American history, values, and culture. Added to that his closest relatives were Communists and America-haters, so no chance Stanley Ann was providing any counter to what Barack was learning in his school and from Indonesian friends.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 11, 2015 11:15 AM (NOIQH)

Completely true - but the baffling thing is that people who were born and raised here, people who grew up scouting and playing in Little League and watching fireworks on the 4th of July think he's just wonderful.

It's a mistake to think that everyone who voted for him hates America or shares his goals or is on welfare. I have relatives who voted for him who will tell you very sincerely that "America is the greatest country on earth" They just don't examine the contradictions in their own thought processes or challenge what the media tells them. They don't want to think about politics that much. Mom and Dad voted D and told them to vote D and that's it. They couldn't find Iran on a map. In other words, LIVs. Middle class LIV's assume that America will always be America. They think it's unwreckable and would scoff at the idea that the president of the US is trying to wreck it.

Today we're smoking a couple briskets and having a cornhole tournament at my buddies house who proudly flies the American and USMC flags out front and is raising three kids who are NOT brainwashed.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:50 AM (XAFOu)

127
I'm sure, just like Gandalf arriving at Helm's Deep in the the dawn of a new day, an army of fedora-sportin' neckbearded atheist Libertarians will surge over the hill to save us from the FSA Hillary-votin' Uruk-hai without being momentarily distracted by their phones.

The Kennedys are not Chicago. There's a huge sleazy machine there that blurs to invisibility the line between organized crime and politics, but it's not their machine.

Family patriarch Joe was on pleasant terms with, but not of, the Chi-town mob. Similarly with the municipal and regional crime families throughout the country.

Joe had a cold-eyed and pragmatic policy of not making enemies in La Cosa Nostra. He didn't get involved in internal LCN squabbles. He didn't attempt to muscle them. A friend to all, an enemy to none, as far as the mob was concerned.

That lasted right up through the 1960 election, where organized crime influence helped get son Jack into the Oval Office. Then everything went to hell for the relations between the Kennedys and the mafiosi.

Joe stroked out and became aphasically incapacitated. His old amicable relationships with mob bosses, which relied on his direct regular personal contacts, fell off to nothing.

Note also that the psychology of mob figures is wolfish: to respect strength and despise weakness. When any prominent figure in the orbit of LCN falls ill, no made man says, "Gee, poor fellow." They instead start to calculate how to advantage themselves given that change in circumstances. They of course did this with Joe Kennedy.

Meanwhile, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, lacking their dad's instinctive acumen, started trying to play favorites between regional mob groups, and between particular families in regions like New York. That's what the whole Judith Exner thing was about. She was a cutout in back-channel negotiations. (Rumoredly, also Frank Sinatra, a buddy of both of the elder Kennedy brothers, and a longtime mob hanger-on.)

Bobby meanwhile, as Attorney General, started using the Justice Department against LCN factions who weren't paying what the Kennedys considered due respect to the Kennedy clan. A protection racket operating with federal agents.

And, several key underworld movers were furious over JFK's failure at the Bay of Pigs to see through the toppling of Castro and the restoration of their nationalized investments in Cuba. Further poisoning relations.

I'm not one of those "the mob killed the Kennedys" theorists, but the mob must have certainly been happy to see the last of the elder brothers. And Teddy, the dim and distant younger brother, never had any major involvement with the mob, not least because of the lasting schism created by Jack and Bobby. Observe how fast the family political power fell off as a result. They're increasingly negligible.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 11, 2015 11:52 AM (noWW6)

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...who proudly flies the American and USMC flags out front and is raising three kids who are NOT brainwashed.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:50 AM (XAFOu)

AKA "the remnant"

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2015 11:52 AM (XmOA9)

133Today we're smoking a couple briskets and having a cornhole tournament
at my buddies house who proudly flies the American and USMC flags out
front and is raising three kids who are NOT brainwashed.

You should see the cornhole tournaments WE have! *giggle*

Posted by: Reggie and Barry at July 11, 2015 11:53 AM (WvS3w)

134Any president who thinks the wailing of the muezzin is 'the sweetest sound on earth' in most definitely not American, no matter where he was born.

Not a child's laughter, not surf crashing, not a great piece of music and so many other, better sounding things.

That merely confirmed to me that he's muzzie. As a muz, he is opposed to all the principles that made us great, like freedom, self-determination and personal responsibility.

136
You can't hit an 800 foot home run, much less a 1000 foot one. The amount of bat speed it would take would rip the arms off the hitter, and frankly the ball cannot sustain that amount of speed. It is not aerodynamically designed to retain its structural integrity beyond a certain point, and that point would be much less than it would take to travel 800-1000 feet.

A true baseball fan. I believe it was this year when the cover was ripped almost off a ball. Maybe not the first time ever but it was a first for me.

A very well hit ball coming off the bat is in the 110 mph range.

Posted by: just saying at July 11, 2015 11:53 AM (wkuqO)

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I really don't know. I assume somebody does, but I never hear anybody talking about its history, or anyone today taking credit for it.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 11:32 AM (Dj0WE)
----
It was a beautiful confluence of hubris and vision from the minds of Graydon Carter and Kurt Anderson. They wanted to build a new, updated American version of Punch. Actually, we had just such a magazine, called "Puck", at the turn of Ye Olde Century, and by great good fortune Spy Magazine was based in the old Puck Building.

Read "Spy: The Funny Years" for the Spy saga. And for Party Poop snippets.

Any president who thinks the wailing of the muezzin is 'the sweetest sound on earth' in most definitely not American, no matter where he was born.

Posted by: RickZ at July 11, 2015 11:47 AM (GiySw)

Its sad to me, that our Founding Fathers put things in the Constitution which we then ignore.... which leads to trouble.

The Founders put in the 'Native Born' requirement for President, and President only, because they were afraid of the entanglements of Dual Citizenship. There are LEGAL concerns with dual citizens, as well as LOYALTY concerns.

They wanted to ensure the Commander in Chief of the US was an American, and American only.

B. Obama was born, by his own admission, a US and British Commonwealth dual Citizen.

We now see the results of ignoring the wisdom of the Founders.

Posted by: BB Wolf at July 11, 2015 11:54 AM (qh617)

140
"Is this all some malevolent plan, or simply the wages of unprecedented incompetence?"

141Everyone involved in the Frankfurt School should've been deported and the building burnt to the ground the day after it opened.The rotten fruit of that institution has been harvested by our leftarded enemies in TFG.Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at July 11, 2015 11:45 AM (eEb+d)

The Frankfurt School was founded in Germany (Frankfurt, of course) and its members were allowed to immigrate here (doubtless with strings pulled by Party members to get them to the head of the queue) because they were almost all Jewish, and it didn't take a genius to figure out what would happen to Jewish Bolsheviks in 1938 Germany.

Chuck Norris just scowls at the ball as it comes near.... and it then runs away over 1000 ft....

Posted by: BB Wolf at July 11, 2015 11:57 AM (qh617)

143It looks like the woman who called the FBI saying
subway spokesman Jared said middle school girls are hot was either wrong
or lying

They found nothing. But he is ruined

Posted by: ThunderB at July 11, 2015 11:54 AM (zOTsN)Boy, does that suck. (Assuming he is in fact blameless.)

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 11, 2015 11:57 AM (oKE6c)

144
Today we're smoking a couple briskets and having a cornhole tournament at my buddies house who proudly flies the American and USMC flags out front and is raising three kids who are NOT brainwashed.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 11:50 AM (XAFOu)
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Thank you. And thank them.

147
We predict that in the near future, maybe this very day, someone will hit a ball over 1000 feet....

In unrelated news, we have decided to renorm the definition of foot...

Posted by: Guy who worked for both Global Warming, and B. of Labor Stats at July 11, 2015 11:59 AM (qh617)

148
Another Why Oh Why column of apocalyptic moaning by another befuddled and dim crybaby loser, who cannot believe that there are actually humans that just don't agree with his viewpoint.
You really need to grow up and get on with your life, Davey.

Posted by: carlito at July 11, 2015 11:59 AM (f/+XK)

149
Dave, well thought out and writen. No argument from me on any points. Since the NSA knows who you are expect special attention.

Well I don't know about a thousand yards, but I'll give you Sasquach. And Godzilla. And maybe Santa Claus, playing in the Northern League.

But that's it. Nobody else could do it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 12:00 PM (Dj0WE)

151Completely true - but the baffling thing is that people who were born
and raised here, people who grew up scouting and playing in Little
League and watching fireworks on the 4th of July think he's just
wonderful.

It's a mistake to think that everyone who voted for him hates
America or shares his goals or is on welfare. I have relatives who
voted for him who will tell you very sincerely that "America is the
greatest country on earth" They just don't examine the contradictions
in their own thought processes or challenge what the media tells them.
They don't want to think about politics that much. Mom and Dad voted D
and told them to vote D and that's it. They couldn't find Iran on a
map. In other words, LIVs. Middle class LIV's assume that America will
always be America. They think it's unwreckable and would scoff at the
idea that the president of the US is trying to wreck it.

And that's one of the great contradictions of America. It was founded to be a prosperous country where most people wouldn't *have* to have anything to do with politics, that they could just live their lives as they see fit. It's been so wildly successful at that that hardly anybody realizes that the institutions that created that prosperity are being dismantled around their ears by an evil cadre determined to destroy the country. They are busy living their life, as was intended, that they don't notice this stuff, and why should they? The ground that seeds of America's downfall grew in was tilled by her success.

Not determined yet. The total will depend on how many show up but we're thinking 50 per team.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 11, 2015 12:01 PM (XAFOu)

153
10 It boggles the mind that a Malignant Narcissist filled with hate for the people he represents could be elected twice. What is the end game of the "elite" class. Is it royalty and serfs?
Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2015 10:45 AM (FBjP7)

Chuck Norris just scowls at the ball as it comes near.... and it then runs away over 1000 ft....
Posted by: BB Wolf at July 11, 2015 11:57 AM (qh617)

Nonsense. Chuck Norris doesn't have time for baseball. Killing the heartless invaders from Pluto is a FULL TIME job!

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 12:02 PM (Dj0WE)

155The Frankfurt School was founded in Germany (Frankfurt, of course) and its members were allowed to immigrate here (doubtless with strings pulled by Party members to get them to the head of the queue) because they were almost all Jewish, and it didn't take a genius to figure out what would happen to Jewish Bolsheviks in 1938 Germany.

Almost unrelated.

I've been bothered by a nagging thought for a while. After Little Billy Ayers' verdict, he decided to go into academia.

Who hired him? It had to have been a fellow commie traveler, but who? Someone paved his way and knew what he wanted to do with young skulls full of mush. His reputation amongst normal people was pretty much destroyed.

156
How long should a regular 'non-operator' expect to survive if the social order breaks down and the social cold war goes hot?
I am estimating 3 weeks before hell comes to visit, then all that's left is deciding how to die.

Liberals will tell you Obama HAS compromised with Republicans, otherwise coal and oil would be shut down, the borders wide open without dispute, all cities sanctuary cities, single-payer healthcare run through Medicare, guaranteed living wage.

Your starting point is at "reasonable" that's what makes the entire analysis so infuriatingly conservative. Still using logic, reason, syllogistically thinking through things, while foregoing rhetoric avoiding emotion and still caring about costs of things. Your opponent is wildly fierce in so many ways, lodges frontal, side, rear, overhead, subterranean, naval, what have you, attacks every moment of every day of the year decade on end, flexible as anything and without tiring. Prepare to lose again.

158
Sorry I did not mean to say that the Kennedy's were the Chicago mafia. Fitzgerald was part of that machine. Kennedy then branched out as much as possible to achieve as much political power and money as he could. Maria Shriver marrying Arnold for love or CA electoral votes? Ted supported Barry and on the day of the O'care passage Pelosi et al said it was the Kennedy Bill. The media still fawn all over the lies about the K's. The K's still have the power to publish and produce lies documentaries etc. They do not have what they did but they are still a behind the scenes power.
Thank you for your very informative comment.

Posted by: Lex at July 11, 2015 12:04 PM (FBjP7)

159
As Stanley Kurtz warned several years ago, they are now gearing up to socially re-engineer the suburbs.
http://tinyurl.com/o788ago

This forced redistribution of housing will not happen in Berkeley of course where the bien pensant can remain in their trust fund enclaves, but in red-state suburbs. Another 5-4 SCOTUS ruling, again led by Kennedy, opened the door. Yes, Dr. Zhivago is coming to your local town -- "we think your home is too big for you. The State has a better, fairer use for it. For equality and compassion -- for the State."

162
Bour3, these columns discuss theory, not tactics. You would not believe what tactics I advocate in the political arena.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 11, 2015 12:06 PM (WvS3w)

163I've been bothered by a nagging thought for a while. After Little Billy Ayers' verdict, he decided to go into academia.

Who hired him? It had to have been a fellow commie traveler, but who? Someone paved his way and knew what he wanted to do with young skulls full of mush. His reputation amongst normal people was pretty much destroyed.

So, who hired him?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at July 11, 2015 12:02 PM (eEb+d)

I also assume it was a commie or fellow traveler. I do believe there are networks that operate clandestinely to do that sort of thing. If that sounds too tin-foil hatty, consider the Underground Railroad of the slavery days, and the various Resistance groups in Europe during WWII. The French Resistance almost to a man comprised the erstwhile French Communist Party, which was accustomed to operating in a clandestine, cell-type fashion, and was the only crew with the discipline, organization, and security to resist effectively.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 11, 2015 12:07 PM (oKE6c)

164
It was a beautiful confluence of hubris and vision from the minds of Graydon Carter and Kurt Anderson. They wanted to build a new, updated American version of Punch. Actually, we had just such a magazine, called "Puck", at the turn of Ye Olde Century, and by great good fortune Spy Magazine was based in the old Puck Building.

Read "Spy: The Funny Years" for the Spy saga. And for Party Poop snippets.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at July 11, 2015 11:54 AM (jR7Wy)

Thanks, I knew there had to be some record out there. I have to say though, those names do not otherwise ring any bells.

I'll grab the book... just did... it was on Amazon, used price as low as .93! I splurged and got the "Like New" copy for $1.89.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 12:08 PM (Dj0WE)

165162 Bour3, these columns discuss theory, not tactics. You would not believe what tactics I advocate in the political arena.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 11, 2015 12:06 PM (WvS3w)

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And that's one of the great contradictions of America. It was founded to be a prosperous country where most people wouldn't *have* to have anything to do with politics, that they could just live their lives as they see fit. -WeirdDave-

Imma have to disagree there, Dave.
It was founded in such a way that the government was restrained, in fact forbidden, to intervene on behalf of your countrymen against you, barring some obvious tort.
Limited government meant you and your neighbor had to respect each others differing opinions, because government wasn't allowed to intervene on behalf of either.
Other than the 800lb gorilla of slavery, it worked.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2015 12:09 PM (XmOA9)

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Obama couldn't survive if he didn't have the Four Horsemen of the Cultural Takeover covering for him: The Media, Academia, Hollywood, and the Permanent Bureaucracy.

Oh, and don't forget, Bigot: Justice Kennedy, citing himself as the authority on the equal protection clause.

173Well sure. It's not going to work. It never works. But a couple hundred million dead people later is a bit late for us to be saying "see, I told you so!"

I will come back and haunt a bunch of m*****f*****s to say exactly this.

Unless I get to man a vat of hot pitch and a sharp stick in Hell.

Posted by: JAnne at July 11, 2015 12:12 PM (5rbdR)

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I'll grab the book... just did... it was on Amazon, used price as low as .93! I splurged and got the "Like New" copy for $1.89.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 11, 2015 12:08 PM (Dj0WE)
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I got mine for two bucks in the remainders bin at B&N and it's been one of my favorite go-to books for laffs.

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I believe it was this year when the cover was ripped almost off a ball. Maybe not the first time ever but it was a first for me.

Posted by: just saying at July 11, 2015 11:53 AM (wkuqO)

It used to happen a lot 100+ years ago, because they would keep the same ball in play until it fell apart. You can see old photos where the ball looks almost black. Nowadays they remove the ball from play when it gets scuffed.

Posted by: rickl at July 11, 2015 12:14 PM (sdi6R)

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You can't hit an 800 foot home run, much less a 1000 foot one. The amount of bat speed it would take would rip the arms off the hitter, and frankly the ball cannot sustain that amount of speed. It is not aerodynamically designed to retain its structural integrity beyond a certain point, and that point would be much less than it would take to travel 800-1000 feet.

Don't be silly.

The science is settled.

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Sasquatches can. And we're going to give Weirddave his due for writing such an outstanding analysis of Obama.

*Squatch sticking his tongue out*

Posted by: Sasquatch, the trans-Wookie Original at July 11, 2015 12:15 PM (LXGhS)

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It used to happen a lot 100+ years ago, because they would keep the same ball in play until it fell apart. You can see old photos where the ball looks almost black. Nowadays they remove the ball from play when it gets scuffed.

Posted by: rickl

I like my balls a little scuffed.

Posted by: Tom Brady at July 11, 2015 12:15 PM (VAsIq)

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Speaking of commies and fellow travelers, and thinking about the Frankfurt School I just went to Wikipedia out of curiosity, and found this gem:

According to Chip Berlet, who specializes in the study of extreme right-wing movements, the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory found fertile ground with the development of the Tea Party movement in 2009, with contributions published in the American Thinker and WorldNetDaily highlighted by some Tea Party websites.[58]

Oh, "Chip Berlet" specializes in the study of "extreme right-wing movements," which the paragraph links to the Tea Party.

Turns out "Chip Berlet" was a paralegal at the National Lawyers Guild, a notorious Communist front. But the quoted paragraph above makes him sound like an impartial observer, with no hint that his characterization should be taken with a dump truck full of salt.

Thanks, Wiki fellow traveler!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 11, 2015 12:15 PM (oKE6c)

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The ground that seeds of America's downfall grew in was tilled by her success.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 11, 2015 12:01 PM (WvS3w)

It's struck me that that is also the Achilles heel of capitalism. Small businessmen might be all in favor of free trade and small government, but once that their businesses become big, they'll form alliances with the government to shut out the competition. Conservatives have never thought it wrong to make a buck, but now we're seeing that the Chamber of Commerce is completely willing to disregard the well being of the country because they're so focused on making a buck.

I guess Lenin really was right when he said the capitalists would sell the commies the rope the commies would hang them with.

187176 Angela Davis got away with murder. She did buy those guns with the purpose they would be smuggled into court and used to kill people.Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 11, 2015 12:13 PM (iQIUe)

She did indeed. I actually have spoken with her on a number of occasions, and I don't have the slightest doubt that she was involved up to her eyeballs. She would run the camps with a very harsh hand indeed.

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Martin Maldanado, the backup catcher for the Brewers, is the one who hit the cover off the ball last season when they were playing the Pirates. (He's not a particularly good hitter either.) The clip on YouTube is pretty funny. The ball was hit to 3rd base and the Pirates 3rd baseman picked it up and looked at it like "WTF is this?" and then tried to throw it to first base. It was like he was throwing a wet dishrag.

Absolutely. The funny part is that she could pass for white, which I suspect is why she grew the enormous Afro. I once saw her as she came out of a pool. She looked like a drowned rat.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 11, 2015 12:25 PM (oKE6c)

194Your starting point is at "reasonable" that's what makes the entire analysis so infuriatingly conservative. Still using logic, reason, syllogistically thinking through things, while foregoing rhetoric avoiding emotion and still caring about costs of things. Your opponent is wildly fierce in so many ways, lodges frontal, side, rear, overhead, subterranean, naval, what have you, attacks every moment of every day of the year decade on end, flexible as anything and without tiring. Prepare to lose again.
Posted by: bour3 at July 11, 2015 12:03 PM (5x3+2)

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Conservative thought is based on old school Scholasticism. The role of reason in mainstream philosophy has been discarded for at least 250 years. It has during that time been supplanted by variations of personal an impersonal will. Conservatism certainly appeals to reason, but it has neglected to assert its will. I wonder if "conservative will" might even be an oxymoron.

OT: Around here, they grow some field peas. I'm sure I could buy a few bushels from one of the neighboring farmers. How would you go about storing them, and/or preserving them for storage as dried peas?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2015 12:29 PM (CIyVc)

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"the old "It's my nature" scorpion and frog joke, which is terrifying."

It's not a joke, It's a cautionary talle.

Same as 1984, which was also supposed to be a cautionary tale.

In Connecticut the Gov just signed legislation that makes it OK for trans people to modify their birth certificates to reflect their "true" gender, making the past malleable.

Both cautionary tales were meant to be just that, not "how to" manuals, but the Liberals didn;t get the memo.

Posted by: West at July 11, 2015 12:31 PM (Di0uO)

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In response to weird dave, I believe you must throw incompetence and lazy into the mix. When there is a void in political leadership, factionalism more easily takes root. It is just an unhappy concurrence that Obama's deficiencies also just happen to be fertile soil for his ideology.

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at July 11, 2015 12:33 PM (ovEqs)

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Food grade plastic bucket with mylar bag. Fill with product and use some dry ice to displace all the oxygen and lid it with a air tight seal after dry ice sublimates.

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I said this here recently but it bears repeating. Obama is what he is. If we view him as the cancer killing the body America, then we the citizens are the three pack a day smokers of unfiltered menthols for the last 50 years. Alinsky merely appreciated and codified how to use our habit against us.

I agree with the OP on every principle mentioned. I'm just adding my observation to the mix I did.

Posted by: Commissar M at July 11, 2015 12:58 PM (KSF9t)

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So in the first paragraph you call people conspiracy theorists for asking what Obama would do differently to destroy the country. You say that's over-thinking it.

Then in your next paragraph you detail a not-so-simple explanation of how his philosophy is to destroy the country so that it can be remade. So what makes you think that asking the question "What would he do differently?" is substantively any different from your analysis?

It's simply a rhetorical device. It's not very persuasive to condescend to people *with whom you actually agree* simply because they don't express their opinion in your preferred manner.

Liberals will tell you Obama HAS compromised with Republicans,
otherwise coal and oil would be shut down, the borders wide open without
dispute, all cities sanctuary cities, single-payer healthcare run
through Medicare, guaranteed living wage.

Your starting point is at "reasonable" that's what makes the entire
analysis so infuriatingly conservative. Still using logic, reason,
syllogistically thinking through things, while foregoing rhetoric
avoiding emotion and still caring about costs of things. Your opponent
is wildly fierce in so many ways, lodges frontal, side, rear, overhead,
subterranean, naval, what have you, attacks every moment of every day of
the year decade on end, flexible as anything and without tiring.
Prepare to lose again.

As I said, tactics are different than theory. I covered some of that in this post months ago:

http://minx.cc:1080/?post=355643

Posted by: Weirddave at July 11, 2015 01:11 PM (WvS3w)

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I wasn't attempting to condescend to anyone BtW, I'm sorry if it came across like that. I was simply setting the boundaries of the field upon which my post would be playing.

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Yes, open-one, Obama's spent his entire pre-electoral career as a paid professional Alinsky communist sower and exploiter of division, and he still doing the same thing, just at a much higher salary.

But he is not JUST an Alinsky communist. He is also a lifelong racist, who wished he could purge the white blood from his own body, he and a thoroughly orthodox Muslim, which means he is an Islamofascist. It was ORTHODOX Islam that attacked us on 9/11, and orthodox Islam's primary instruction to Muslims who are living in infidel countries is that, if the infidels don't already know that they are Muslims, they should PRETEND TO BE INFIDELS, the better to advance Islamic conquest from the other side.

"He sure doesn't SEEM orthodox..." Duh. Learn something about Islam. We're talking about one of the most famous of all the hadiths (the reported sayings of Muhammad), the one that ends "for war is deception." Google it. Tabari 8.23.

Occam's razor would just say to go with, "Obama is stupider than a tampon sandwich," but the simplest explanation is not always the right explanation, and Obama's evil is baroque in its layers of Harkonnian sadism.

211The amount of bat speed it would take would rip the arms off the hitter, and frankly the ball cannot sustain that amount of speed

Pumpkin record currently
dubbed "Big 10 Inch", at 5,545.43 feet

https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Pumpkin_chucking

The speed is doable, the bat putting it all in at once might break something vs. umpteen feet of pneumatic barrel.

Posted by: DaveA at July 11, 2015 02:58 PM (DL2i+)

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It struck me that the origins of Obama's 2012 campaign - "Forward!" never became much of an issues in the conservative media. It was almost certainly taken from the name of a myriad of Marxist newspapers which ran between the two world wars. It was a hat tip to who was running things now, and such a bold statement was made possible by a complicit MSM and a populace ignorant of history.

Posted by: YourMomKeepsTexting at July 11, 2015 03:49 PM (vexAN)

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This is a good take, but it misses the important factor of the liberal voter. These idiots BELIEVE that they are both more intelligent and more moral than the rest of us, and we need to led for our own good. Those of us that occasionally deal with liberals note that they NEVER admit when their idiot policies fail. Obamacare failure? nope, didn't happen. Fast and Furious? Republican lies!!!!! And on and on for any failure of their belief system. Remember, they think that they are better people than you are. Which is why they hate Christianity so much, as it provides an alternative belief system. At least the Christians ADMIT they are based on FAITH and not the "reality" that liberals base thier own dogma on.

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Occam's razor isn't a religious dogma. If the explanation doesn't account for the factors and observed events, then it needs to be more complex to account for such. So as applied to Newton's Laws, he only needed to explain what happens in the solar system, or at most, what happens on this planet with the apples. If it doesn't explain the additional factors and observed events in the universe... that's what quantum mechanics is for, a significantly more "complicated" set of theories, that perversely are also more difficult to prove. If a razor is enough for a job, then use the razor. If one needs a nuke or dynamite, then one needs it. There's no functional reason related to what people want to use, when it is insufficient for the job at hand.

On another note, if a sufficient advanced incompetent were to try blowing up America, they would probably blow their own homes up, like Ayers' buddies did. So to say that it's indistinguishable from Hussein, is taking magic and technology and applying it clumsily to human acts of war. It's not suited for it, the intellectual thinking must be rebuilt from the ground up for that one.

America was always fated for this, ever since America was built upon passing down liberty to Posterity, their descendants so to speak. Americans inherited a power, they didn't earn it. Their blood does not carry the virtues of the founders. So the only way to become worthy of it, was to continue passing down liberty to future generations. America did that in WWII and was rewarded for it with superpower status and more human responsibilities. America failed to do that in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, paving the way for divinity or your ancestors, to remove the gift of that inheritance. Americans have become unworthy of it, even though some are still patriots. Being a patriot was not that the requirement to sustain America. Passing down liberty untarnished to future generations is what made America America.

Failing to do so, by tolerating Carthaginian esque atrocities like PP for profit abortions and pro Hollywood rapist agreements, is not enough to sustain the country that was founded on very different precepts. There is a significant amount of power passed through the inheritance, wasting it by supporting the Chinese in Vietnam, anti American dictators, and Islamic jihad allies of the Left, is not going to empower America, whether this generation or the next.

A culture that sacrifices the future for the pleasures of the present, deserves to be destroyed. Whether that is man made law, natural law, or divine law matters not. If it exists, and I think it does in a format, it will be Enforced.

Posted by: Ymarsakar at July 11, 2015 04:25 PM (xFjpq)

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Occam's razor isn't a religious dogma. If the explanation doesn't account for the factors and observed events, then it needs to be more complex to account for such. So as applied to Newton's Laws, he only needed to explain what happens in the solar system, or at most, what happens on this planet with the apples. If it doesn't explain the additional factors and observed events in the universe... that's what quantum mechanics is for, a significantly more "complicated" set of theories, that perversely are also more difficult to prove. If a razor is enough for a job, then use the razor. If one needs a nuke or dynamite, then one needs it. There's no functional reason related to what people want to use, when it is insufficient for the job at hand.

On another note, if a sufficient advanced incompetent were to try blowing up America, they would probably blow their own homes up, like Ayers' buddies did. So to say that it's indistinguishable from Hussein, is taking magic and technology and applying it clumsily to human acts of war. It's not suited for it, the intellectual thinking must be rebuilt from the ground up for that one.

America was always fated for this, ever since America was built upon passing down liberty to Posterity, their descendants so to speak. Americans inherited a power, they didn't earn it. Their blood does not carry the virtues of the founders. So the only way to become worthy of it, was to continue passing down liberty to future generations. America did that in WWII and was rewarded for it with superpower status and more human responsibilities. America failed to do that in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, paving the way for divinity or your ancestors, to remove the gift of that inheritance. Americans have become unworthy of it, even though some are still patriots. Being a patriot was not that the requirement to sustain America. Passing down liberty untarnished to future generations is what made America America.

Failing to do so, by tolerating Carthaginian esque atrocities like PP for profit abortions and pro Hollywood rapist agreements, is not enough to sustain the country that was founded on very different precepts. There is a significant amount of power passed through the inheritance, wasting it by supporting the Chinese in Vietnam, anti American dictators, and Islamic jihad allies of the Left, is not going to empower America, whether this generation or the next.

A culture that sacrifices the future for the pleasures of the present, deserves to be destroyed. Whether that is man made law, natural law, or divine law matters not. If it exists, and I think it does in a format, it will be Enforced.

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"I don't have to tell you how dangerous this is, we're living it ... It'll be a frickin' miracle if we live through it."

A tad overwrought, no?

I don't think Obama cares a whit about either organizing or disorganizing communities. He's a narcissistic opportunist who cares about one thing only: Obama. Unfortunately his self___ is tied to being a hero in the progressive narrative.

He's a pretty lousy president, but we will live through the Obama years. No frickin' miracles required.

Posted by: sauropod at July 12, 2015 01:42 AM (G/vW6)

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I have no idea why "his self___" printed the way it did in the above post. Weird.